Brake-applying means



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" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFER.

LUDGER ELIZE LA BRIE, OF SOUTH. BEND, IlNDIANA, ASSIGEQB TO BEIIIDIX COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLIN 01S.

BRAKE-APPLYING MEANS.

Application filed August 17, 1925. Serial No. 50,715.

This invention relates to brakes, and is ilsleevedan angularly adjustable or movable lustrated as embodied in novel applying lever 30. Lever 30 is inside oi? lever 28 in the :55 mechanism for a brake on a front or other modification of Fig. '1, and outside in F 2, swivelled wheel. An object of the invention One of the levers, shown as the l v r 558,

5 is to provide a novel adjustment to compenformed with an arcuate slot :2 lg. re-

sate for wear of the brake lining, by clampceiving a clamping bolt passing through ing in any desired angular position an opthe other lever, thus providing means {or an erating lever which, in the case of an expandholding the lever 30 in any desired position ing brake, may be loosely mounted on of angular adjustment. If desired, the adjathe brake-expanding shaft and adjustably cent faces of levers 28 and 30 may be serclamped to an adjacent lever fixed on the rated to form interlocking teeth. h ft The movable lever 30 has a part, pre t'erso When .used for a brake on a swivelled ably a ball 36 at its end, movable in applying wheel, I prefer that the movable lever shall the brake from an idle position spaced from have a part movable, in applying the bralre, the swivelling axis of the wheel (i. e. the from'an idle position spaced from the s w 1V axis of the king-pin) to an active posit-ion elling axis of the wheel to an active position substantially in that axis. This part of the in substantially in that axis. This part of the lever is engaged by the brake-applying lever is engaged by the brake-applying mezfns,'such as a vertical plane surface on means, illustrated as a generally horizontal the end of a generally horizontal. operating lever. lever 38 fulcrumcd on the axle 18.-

The above and other objects and features If it is desired to relieve the outer brake of the invention, including various novel in rounding a corner, thepoint or" engage combinations of parts and desirable particument between levers 38 and 36, when the lar constructions, will be apparent from the brake is applied, is not exactly in the swiveb following description of one illustrative emling axis but a fraction of an in h f th t bodiment shown in the accompanying drawaxis on the side next the wheel, and the two ings, in which: front brakes are not equalized against each Fig. 1 is a vertical section through a front other.

so brake, showing the control in rear elevation; While two illustrative embodiments have Fig. 2 is a vertical'section correspond ng to been described in detail, it is not my intenthe upper part of Fig. -1, but. showing a tion to limit the scope of the invention to as modification; and those particular embodiments, or otherwise Fig. 3 is a partial vertical section'on the than by the terms of the appended claim,

We line 3.3 of Fig. 2, showing the relatively- Iclaim:

adjustable levers in inside elevation. A control for a brake on a swivelled wheel In the arrangements illustrated, the shoes comprising, in combination, a shaft having a) or equivalent friction means 10 are arranged brake-applying means, two levers on the between a backing plate, 12 and a drum 14, shaft, one fixed to the shaitt and the other 40 the drum being rotatably mounted with the movable, the movable lever having a part wheel on a knuckle 16 carrying the backing movable in applying the brake from an idle plate 12 and swivelled by means of the usual position spaced from the swivelling axis to 1% king-pin at one end of the axle 18. The an active position substantially in that axis, brake may be applied by means such as a means to clamp the two levers together in double cam 20, arranged between thedrum' any desired position of relative angular adand backing plate, and operated by a short ,ustment, and an operating lever movable shaft 22 extending through the backing plate. about a vertical axis between its ends and en The shaft- 22 is journalled-in a support or gaging at one endsaid part of the movable bracket 2e carried by the backing plate. lever. 59 On the serrated end of shaft 22 (Fig. 1), In testimony whereof I have hereunto or. nearly at the end of the shaft (Fig. 2) signed my name.- is secured by a suitable clamp screw 26a fixed lever 28, adjacent which there is loosely LUDGER ELIZE LA BRIE. 

